creator Sun, Wanlin advisor Cage, Brant This thesis is composed of two projects. The first project involves the investigation of a series of Cr+++ compounds as potential magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents. The second part of the thesis involves collaborative work with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the development of an MRI calibration phantom designed to correlate data from different MRI institutions for long term studies of diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Data from the Cr+++ project indicated that these compounds show some promise for enhancement of MRI images. The second project resulted in a NIST phantom being built based partly upon data obtained here at IIT. Submitted by Dana Lamparello (dlampare@iit.edu) on 2012-08-21T19:29:44Z No. of bitstreams: 2 final thesis.pdf: 2036084 bytes, checksum: 88f75a20d3b4c52aae0b915dc63848a4 (MD5) Thesis title page.PDF: 14816 bytes, checksum: b34c063f0a698d8ce995e057bc46986d (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-08-21T19:29:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 final thesis.pdf: 2036084 bytes, checksum: 88f75a20d3b4c52aae0b915dc63848a4 (MD5) Thesis title page.PDF: 14816 bytes, checksum: b34c063f0a698d8ce995e057bc46986d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-05 M.S. in Chemistry, May 2012 2012-04-25 2012-05 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2813 en Thesis born digital application/pdf In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Restricted Access CHEM / Chemistry Illinois Institute of Technology Affiliated department